Right-hand man of Colombia’s most wanted drug lord arrested
Authorities on Tuesday said they had arrested the right-hand man of “Otoniel,” the leader of Colombia’s most powerful drug trafficking organization, the Urabeños.
Authorities on Tuesday said they had arrested the right-hand man of “Otoniel,” the leader of Colombia’s most powerful drug trafficking organization, the Urabeños.
Los Paisas are one of Colombia’s smaller neo-paramilitary drug trafficking organizations and on the verge of extinction because of ongoing pressure by larger criminal organizations like the Urabeños.
The Aguilas Negras is a neo-paramilitary group or are small neo-paramilitary groups that has become one of the most elusive and mysterious remnants of the paramilitary group AUC.
The “Bloque Meta” (Meta Bloc) is a neo-paramilitary drug trafficking organization active in Colombia’s eastern plains.
The Rastrojos are one of Colombia’s most powerful drug trafficking organizations. The group is particularly strong in the southwest of the country.
Two soldiers have been arrested for selling more than 400 firearms to the Urabeños, Colombia’s most powerful drug trafficking organization.
Colombia’s oil workers union said Tuesday that just this month two of its leaders have been attacked while another 11 received death threats.
Following a years-long non-aggression pact between leftist rebels of the FARC and neo-paramilitary group “Los Urabeños” in the north of Colombia, violence has returned to Cordoba, a state with a long history of…
The Colombian government needs to do more to protect human rights workers who have been threatened by right-wing death squads, Amnesty International said Wednesday.